Re: how about a trial timing of how long it takes people to vote before the election?

[Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@xxxxxxxxx>]

It is my opinion that early voting and mail-in ballots are both horrific.

But ... a big improvement in mail-in ballots will occur if the ballots are
not opened until election day.  There is extremely valuable political
information to be gained by knowing how the election is going in any
particular race.

Ralph Shnelvar
Proudly running as a Libertarian for Boulder County Commissioner from
District 1.



On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:15:06 -0600 (MDT), you wrote:

>Mary,
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>Voters should not be scanning ballots in precincts. This does not make sense.
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>We do not want more DREs!
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>Best is voting in neighborhood precincts with hand counting in front of
>neighbors. Early voting is better than mail-in voting.
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>> Hi Margit and Everyone,
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>> Would early voting be a better approach than seeking more investment in
>> machines, especially DREs?
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>> However, I did just hear of a situation in Indiana's spring primary in
>> which the voters who appeared to vote when the polls opened in one
>> precinct were given paper ballots to mark but could not cast them
>> because the scanner did not work. The second scanner was delivered, and
>> the poll workers could not get it to work either. Finally the voters
>> left without casting their ballots.
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>> For line-phobic people, early voting on paper ballots at the clerk's
>> office or satellite office, where people presumably know how to operate
>> the machinery, seems the best bet to me.
>>
>> Mary
>> (303) 442-2164
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>> Margit Johansson wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>      I've just been reading something about the interaction of voters
>>> with machines in 2004 in one state.  With a long ballot, some people
>>> with limited English skills, and machines cancelling people's votes when
>>> they took too long, some people took an hour on a machine.
>>>      Part of the solution to lines is to have enough machines.  Another
>>> would be to have people prepared for how they were going to vote ahead
>>> of time.  Could we get the clerks to do tests before the election, using
>>> people who were and were not prepared, people whose English was poor,
>>> etc?
>>> Margit
>>>
>>> Margit Johansson
>>> 303-442-1668/ margitjo@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:margitjo@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
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